Our first good look at the stars of the next Star Trek show is here, and there’s not a Starfleet uniform in sight. But there is a mysterious planet, and a peek at the show’s two leading ladies—Michelle Yeoh and Sonequa Martin-Green—in action.

The photo features Michelle Yeoh as Captain Philippa Georgiou and The Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham — a perfect illustration of the show's commitment to diversity.

Discovery executive producer Bryan Fuller (who has since stepped down as showrunner to focus on other projects) emphasized that he wanted the new series to center around a woman of color as lead , and the show will also be the first Star Trek TV series to feature an openly gay character . Read more...

The first trailer for the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery TV series has finally arrived, and you can watch it right now.

We get a look at the new ship, many of the characters, and a variety of alien worlds. The Star Trek: Discovery trailer (above) also sets up a conflict with the Klingons, which appears to be a major focus of the show. It also confirms a fall release window, though there still isn't an exact date.

In addition to the trailer's debut, we also got our first look at the show in the photo below. It shows stars Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead) standing in the desert canyon from the beginning of the trailer. Yeoh plays Captain Philippa Georgiou, while Marin-Green portrays First Officer Michael Burnham.

Discovery also stars James Frain (True Blood), Anthony Rapp (Dazed & Confused), and Doug Jones (Hellboy). Showrunner Bryan Fuller stepped down last year , but he remains an executive producer.

The first episode of Discovery will air on CBS this fall, with all subsequent ones appearing on its All Access digital subscription service. The show is set about a decade prior to the events of The Original Series.

The show has faced several delays , with a CBS representative saying earlier this year, "It's more important to do this right than to do it fast. There is also added flexibility presenting on CBS All Access , which isn't beholden to seasonal premieres or launch windows."

We'll admit, we were a liiiiiiittle concerned about Star Trek: Discovery after Bryan Fuller exited the series as showrunner and the premiere date was pushed from February to May , and then from May to... sometime this fall.

But CBS unveiled the first full length trailer for the new series at its upfront presentation on Wednesday, and while a good trailer doesn't necessarily signal a good final product, the footage was everything we expect Star Trek to be: action-packed, cinematic, stuffed with intriguing new aliens, worlds and technology, and, perhaps most importantly, hopeful.

The network also announced that the first season has been extended to 15 episodes from its initial 13, and will come complete with its own aftershow, Talking Trek, which will be available on CBS All Access. Read more...

CBS debuted a full trailer for Star Trek: Discovery today, showing off a clip stuffed with plenty of Federation action, spaceships, and a ton of new characters, in a story set a decade before Captain Kirk and Spock ventured out in the Enterprise.

The trailer opens with Michelle Yeoh as Captain Philippa Georgiou and Sonequa Martin-Green as First Officer Michael Burnham walking across a desert planet. There, Georgiou tells Burnham that it’s time for her first command, and we jump to scenes on the bridge of the Discovery. Over the course of the next two minutes, the ship engages the Klingons, the new cast blurs by, tensions rise, and the character interactions hint at a number of plot threads involving the Federation’s current place in the...

If you've been waiting patiently for Star Trek: Discovery, we have some good news and some bad news (and, I guess, some in-between news). The good news is that the series will make its debut on CBS All Access this fall and that its order has been expanded to 15 episodes from the originally promised 13 episodes . The neither-good-nor-bad news is that it will be accompanied by a Talking Dead-style post-show discussion show called Talking Trek, which you can watch if you like that sort of thing or ignore if you don't. And the bad news is that, well, the trailer falls a little flat, especially knowing what we do about the behind-the-camera turmoil (Bryan Fuller, its original showrunner, dropped out of the process partway , and the show was originally supposed to launch this past January ).

Though the new show canonically takes place in the same fictional universe as the original series, The Next Generation, and most of the other pre-JJ Abrams Trek shows and movies, the show's look has a lot more in common with Abrams' Trek than with any of the older entries. Everything, including the uniforms and the bridge, is shiny and slick. And while later episodes of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise made extensive use of computer-generated effects, decades of advancements in the field are going to mean much bigger and flashier effects than anything that has been possible in older series.

As a lifelong fan, my impulse is to be pretty forgiving of Trek, but the trailer doesn't do much for me. In some ways, it's Trek-by-numbers: warp signatures are detected, crewmembers are beamed up, (newly redesigned and honestly sort of off-putting) Klingons are engaged, computers are spoken to, objects are viewed onscreen, frontiers are explored. But a few wooden performances and editing that leaps wildly from scene to obviously unrelated scene does the trailer no favors.

CBS has finally released the first full trailer for its hotly anticipated new Star Trek show, "Star Trek: Discovery."

"Ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise, there was Discovery," the opening reads, while dropping us into a desert scene with Sonequa Martin-Green and Michelle Yeoh, first officer and captain of the Discovery respectively.

Here's the ship, which appears soon after:

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As Variety points out , Martin-Green seems to be a human raised by Vulcans, based on her interactions in the trailer with Spock's father Sarek, played by James Frain. "You will never learn Vulcan, your tongue is too human," Frain says in what appears to be a flashback, featuring a younger Martin-Green.

Here is Frain in character:

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In another tense moment in the trailer, Yeoh says, "Starfleet doesn't fire first." Martin-Green responds, "We have to." There seems to be plenty of action and tough decisions on the Discovery.

Here's what it looks like on the bridge:

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“Star Trek: Discovery” has been plagued by production delays, but is supposed to launch this fall. It is part of CBS' big push to pump up its "CBS All Access" service, which is a Netflix-like streaming service that costs $5.99 a month, or $9.99 for the ad-free version.

After months of production delays and showrunner Bryan Fuller's departure from the show, CBS finally gave us our first look at the new "Star Trek" reboot, "Star Trek: Discovery." The show will premiere this fall exclusively on CBS's online platform, CBS All Access .

Last night we got our first good look at the new Star Trek TV series, Discovery; its trailer was packed with some gorgeous shots, as well as new ships, uniforms, and tech of the show, which is set 10 years before the original series. Here’s everything we noticed.

Yesterday, CBS dropped the first real trailer for the upcoming subscription-only series Star Trek: Discovery, finally giving fans a idea of what the first Trek TV show since 2005’s Enterprise will look like. It’s a good trailer, showing off some of the characters, including Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) who in a series first will be a lead character who isn’t a Starfleet captain. Reportedly, Discovery will tell a more personal story focusing on Burnham, in additional to the general ensemble crew of the Discovery. That could be an interesting direction for a Star Trek show.

The Discovery trailer also shows a more diverse Star Trek than ever before. While original Trek creator Gene Roddenberry famously broke ground for...

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